The construction of beautiful villages is the upgraded version of the construction of new villages.It is a new requirement targeting the striking points of rural ecological and environmental problems emerged in the previous new village construction and responding to the notion of ecological civilization proposed in the report of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China.This needs holistic planning and reasonable institutional arrangements according to the reform of the ways of agricultural production,the innovation of the models of rural governance,and the protection of the rights of farmers.However,the environmental law based on the urban-rural dichotomy makes the supply of rules seriously insufficient for the construction of beautify villages.Therefore,it is necessary to improve the legal regime for the protection of rural ecology and environment by revising and improving the law,as evidenced by eradicating the urban-rural dichotomy in the environmental law,effectively protecting farmers’ rights and interests,and improving the institutions and mechanisms of rural environmental protection.